Using Real Audio on MartnetInstructions on how to stream audio with Real Player

MartNet's Web Servers support
a wide variety of standard Multimedia formats, using MIME types
defined in our Web Server configurations, and Apache's mime_magic
module to detect new file formats on the fly. If a particular
type of file is not supported, please send mail to webmaster@martnet.com
(include the MIME type if you know it) and we will add it to our
Web Server configurations.

Most multimedia content can be
included in Web pages using the standard HTML tags such as OBJECT
and EMBED, and are supported by most Graphical HTML editors
such as Netscape Composer, Adobe PageMill, and M$ FrontPage. For
instructions on using these programs to create Web pages with
multimedia content, please refer to the documentation that came
with your software package.

RealAudio HTTP
Streaming is available
on all MartNet Web Servers. To get RealAudio to stream properly
(instead of simply having the file downloaded without streaming)
please follow the following instructions:

1) Copy
your encoded RealAudio files (files with the .ra extension)
to your Web Site directory (public_html) or a directory
inside your public_html directory (we recommend creating a directory
called "rafiles" for all your RealAudio files,
but you can set up the directory structure however you see fit.

2) Use a text editor (such as pico, BBEdit,
or Notepad) to create a metafile containing a RealAudio
URL (the path to the RealAudio file itself.) For example, the
contents of your file should be in the following form, and should
contain only one line:

http://hostname/path

where hostname is the name of
our Web Server (or your MartNet Hosted Virtual Domain!). For example:

http://www.martnet.com/~username/rafiles/filename.ra

or

http://www.yarga.net/audio/1997-98/filename.ra

3) Save your metafile in as text using
a .ram filename extension.

4) In your HTML document, reference the
metafile in a hyperlink. (if
you reference the .ra file itself, the entire file will be downloaded
and saved to the viewer's hard drive before playing.) For example:

< A HREF="filename.ram">

You can use relative or complete
paths. If you use complete paths, you must include both the hostname
and the complete path. For example:

< A HREF="http://www.martnet.com/~username/rafiles/filename.ram">

5) When a user clicks on the link, the
audio file(s) begin to stream. The RealPlayer begins playing after
a few seconds; it does not need to wait for the entire file to
be downloaded! Streaming Audio at it's finest!